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A devout Catholic proud of her Irish descent, Helen Joanne Watters Zivalich passed away July 16 at 85. Her children say she was strict, but loving A devout Catholic proud of her Irish descent, and the wife of a union organizer, Helen Joanne Watters Zivalich passed away July 16 at the age of 85. Her eight living children remember her as a loving mom who ran a tight ship. Born the sixth of 10 children in Grimes, Iowa, to a farmer father and a schoolteacher mom, Zivalich decided early to go by her middle name Joanne, because "she liked it better than Helen," said daughter Dr. Jane Zivalich Raitano. "That's the way she was. When she made up her mind about something,...

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